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It’s time to record my thoughts on AI assisted coding. What’s good and bad, and where I think we’re heading. There’s not going to be anything earth-shatteringly new in here - I feel there is a consensus building in the software industry and this comes from both my experiences and learning from others. I’ve been using AI assisted coding seriously in my job for around 4 months, and for my own projects for around 2 months. I’m not going to state which systems I’m using; I’m not here to advertise any services. As I discuss later, I actually don’t think it really matters. But what does matter is how this is changing the software industry. The economics of software have changed forever and this is opening all sorts of exciting new opportunities to build things we’ve never been able to before. I think that’s going to be a generally good thing. ...

Hi, I’m Robert. I’m a software engineer who has been working in open source for a long time, these days mostly on Ubuntu and Flutter at Canonical. If you want the fuller version, there’s an about page with more detail. For years I wrote intermittently, at Bob the Gnome, but it’s been inactive for many years now. This is that blog’s replacement. I’ve wanted to post more frequently than I have, for a long time. It’s easy to let a thought pass by unrecorded because the older blog tools were a pain to use. I don’t find it productive using social media so while this will likely have less reach it will hopefully still be useful. ...